If was good enough for the OJ jury.
Is she screwing the case on purpose to get a verdict, kick it upstairs and out of her courtroom, figuring it will be adjudicated on appeal?
This is the story of two people: One who has never had an honest thought in her life, let alone done an honest deed. Versus another individual who spent his life earning an honest living and supporting his family raising cattle. One has political influence and pull. One does not have political influence and pull. One sits in a jail cell. One is running around free as a bird spreading death and destruction far and wide.
Good post.
If I were president, I’d pardon each and every one of them. At its very worst regarding the events, this is a clash of a traditional and a contemporary culture.
#BunkervilleLivesMatter
“Most defendants have been jailed without bail for a year and half.”
How is that constitutional? Americans are entitled to a reasonable bail and a speedy trial.
“The Bill of Rights are...”
The Bill of rights *is*. If you’re going to be on our side, don’t make us look like a pack of illiterates.
When a guy on our side is railroaded, we are concerned about the Bill of Rights.
But how many FReepers realize the number of innocent Blacks and Latinos in prison for exactly the same railroading?
The lawyer class serves the interests of the lawyers for the benefit of the lawyers... And the judge is a lawyer, in most cases vetted and put there by other lawyers.
Regardless of who the defendant is, the lawyer does not change his stripes.
> Judge won’t allow evidence that might have resulted in hung jury
You mean “exculpatory”?
Talking about Jury Nullification in court is a great way to get a contempt charge and jail time.
Navarro quoted from a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the topic of jury nullification:
Jury nullification occurs when a jury acquits a defendant, even though the government proved guilt beyond a reasonable doubt… Juries do not have a right to nullify, and courts have no corresponding duty to ensure that juries are able to exercise this power, such as by giving jury instructions on the power to nullify…
On the contrary, “courts have the duty to forestall or prevent [nullification], whether by firm instruction or admonition or… dismissal of an offending juror,” because “it is the duty of juries in criminal cases to take the law from the court, and apply that law to the facts as they find them to be from the evidence.” Juries are just rubber-stamps.
Yes, We the People are just cattle to be manipulated into making whatever case against ourselves the PTB want us to. To keep us within the illusion that we are a goverment OF, By and For the People.
...........this is one complaint I have about Sessions. Up until noon on January 20, these were Obama’s prosecutors.
Now, they are Sessions. He has the power to do anything he wants up to and including replacing these prosecutors with some that are not so far left.
I would prefer he just drop the whole case but minimally he could rein it all in.
Circus, of course.
The PEOPLE are the final arbiters of the Law, for it is them that govt derives its being.
We the People have as much Right vs validity, nay, MORE so, than the Courts.
> Juries do not have a right to nullify
Citizens have a right to a trial by a jury of their peers, not a trail by a judge. The judge is a referee. If the jury decides that a law is unjust or being unjustly applied that is their decision.
Misleading headline.
Any opinions about jury nullification are not evidence, nor are the basis for those opinions.
That is a lie!